Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
SAMUEL BECKETTNothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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My mistakes are my life.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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